this is bbc america. now live from london "bbc world news." >> hello. i'm with "bbc world news," our top stories. ukraine's president concerns that government troops are pulling out of the key tab of debaltseve in an organized move. but they say a pullout is almost entirely in place. >> reports of street to street fighting for this key transport

hub. we have a reporter on the front line. >> reporter: we're standing on one of the front lines here. we're only about 5 kilometers away from debaltseve. we are hearing reports some ukrainian troops may be leaving the town but we're also hearing the regular sound of artillery with the fighting still going on. hqsbc launch inging an investigation after claims of money laundering. hundreds of chinese head home for the lunar year what's thought to be the biggest migration. hello. ukrainian troops have begun

withdrawing from debaltseve in the east of the country. the town has been the scene of some of the heaviest fighting in recent days and is strategy liq important because of the railroad hub that links the town and donetsk. showing several ukrainian troops on the move with their weapons from debaltseve. russian foreign minister gave a news conference and said ukrainian troops tried to bolt out of debaltseve rather than negotiate with the rebels. >> translator: we're trying to relieve the ukrainian troops. instead of talks, we have seen attempts to break through surrounding from outside and the

militia rebel response. we are keernd about debaltseve and we're convinced there is an-- we are concerned there is no attempt to be calm and these are forced and change that existed -- i found that priority will be saving the lives of those people in debaltseve. many of them are starting to give up. they're treating very humanely given food shower warm clothes. >> we're going to cross live to kiev because the ukrainian military spokesman is giving an update on the latest situation in east ukraine. >> translator: what are you planning to do with them and how

will you be supplying them with everything? again, we don't have this data. the operation is going on under the retreat of bulletdebaltseve terrorism. there is no ukrainian military left there. the question will be in english. >> i would like to understand the soldiers that are withdrawing, is this with their weapons or without their weapons? >> translator: according to the information that we have received yesterday, the ukrainian military are leaving

with the weapons. and all they can take with them is a -- they cannot take with them is eliminated so the enemy does not get all that. >> translator: any other questions? please clairerify which are controlled by ukrainian servicemen and which are not controlled? what are the changes during the last 24 hours, while the operation is going on we have not received more data thank you. one more. >> translator: coupon >> translator: could you please specify. yesterday, there were many statements that ukrainian

servicemen are entrapped there and today, there's information there's no trap there. >> the operation is going on. we cannot see what's happening because we cannot receive this data thank you. the next briefing on this situation situation -- >> okay. we will leave obviously that press conference just ending. let's hear from our national correspondent correspondent, ian, on the front line. >> reporter: we're at the checkpoints and not able to go any further down this road because it's mined. i guess a key point to tell you, there is a significant sound of heavy artillery being fired out. you can't hear it but it's going on around us. most sounds like it's going into the rebel side into the town of debaltseve. we spoke to one of the soldiers who said the fighting was still going on and they would carry on until they took the town.

interestingly he predicted he didn't think that would be the ends of the battle at all. >> the reports we're getting here the ukraine's president saying 80% of the units have left, what do you make of that? >> reporter: >> reporter: we know they were in a beleaguered position. they must be low on ammunition because they haven't been able to get supplies. medical staff from the ukrainian side we spoke to a couple days ago said they were having difficulty even getting hold of them let alone getting in and retrieving the injured. the amount of artillery and shells that have been coming down on that town one would have to assume the situation is incredibly dire for those troops. it would be a fairly ignominious defeat for the ukrainians to have to pull out like this. the key question is if these rebel force take debaltseve is that going to be enough?

this isn't the only place there have been breaches of the cease-fire, many commanders made it claire their ambitions are greater than just that town and never thistheless will regard this as a significant victory and they will go on. >> why is debaltseve so significant for the russian supporting force? >> reporter: that is a very good question. essentially, there are two break away region ss declared by people's republic. you have one to the north and donetsk where we are now. it gives you a rail connection between the two, although one would imagine the infrastructure is probably being smashed in the same way donetsk airport was. this is about resources and creating at least on paper what

is a viable entity. people talk about and tolerate. actually when you push commanders here many people want more than autonomy they want out right independence and you mean a viable service. to add, some of the troops here are very clearly from russia from the far east of russia. commanders say that doesn't prove they're sent by the russian government all it shows you that there have been volunteers, as they call them to come and join the battle. clearly, there has been according to americans and according to the ukrainians high levels of support. we saw that at the u.n. yesterday in the comment made by the u.n. ambassador to the u.n. samantha power. >> in panel live at the front line. we go speak to the georgian

president recently been appointed as advisor to the ukrainian government. thanks for joining us. can i get your response to events on the ground. it looks like there has been a surrender effectively of the ukrainian force. >> what i can say about what we just heard. the former president of georgia, me mikhail saakashvili. i do not street grow with putin's way. i agree this land is about land resources, local place, railway junctions and airports. i think clearly seen like this and that's obvious for all of us around ukraine, this is not land where we worry about land this is a world territory, lives, about whether ukraine can break

off from this post soviet vicious soviet corrupt inefficient failing societies, whether ukraine can really go to the west can really reform and really make changes. what russia is after not youukraine and i also believe the territory also after the whole south of ukraine. they want to gain access. they're after ukraine and democracy, they're after the kiev government and they want them to fail. that's from putin. there's so many connections between ukrainians and russians if ukraine succeeds he will fail dramatically in russia. that's the key thing about the whole situation here. >> the point is land is always part of getting political control. what is your precise role in this in helping and advising the

ukrainian government? isn't that likely to inflame things even more given your history with moscow? >> i think ukrainians are independent enough not to think in those terms. i am here as chairman of advisory council to the president of ukraine primarily because georgia was a successful reform case of getting from very corrupt societies to basically one of the no corrupt societies in the world. that's for ukraine. president poroshenko is an enormously talented man and wants to reform ukraine. he spent three hours in a hard situation on the military front in a reform council talking about anti-corruption measures. >> can i just ask you -- there's a lot to talk about -- we don't have very much time i'm afraid. what do you now think the west if i can put it like that should do, forever you want them clearly to support kiev?

>> kiev supports defensive weapons. they need tank weapons and precise artillery tracking radars to track russian artillery. people on the ground putting up kiev resistance they need precise weapons and not just general talk. this would be an immense political gesture. it's not impeding russian, i think it was clear when i was part of the discussions in kiev they knew beforehand russia would violate the agreement but wanted to demonstrate their good will in the hope the west would appreciate ukraine is acting in good faith hopefully the appreciation from the west would come in real help of defensive weapons and training of ukrainian troops in dire need of proper training because in terms of spirit they're exemplary, all the rest is lacking here. also the fate of europe and west

at stake here. it goes both ways. >> you're effectively talking about a military escalation. isn't the solution to this going to have to be diplomatic? >> ukrainians are not going to attack russians. we don't have weapons. if russians advance further to the south and east and try to take access to crimea and get access to mulldova then somebody has to stop them. because no western countries willing to put boots on the ground at least provide anti-tank weapons so they can stop the advancing columns and they need radar to know exactly where they're shelled and return fire. these weapons are not used for attacking the russians. no ukrainian contemplates attack on russians. the last thing ukrainians need now. ukrainians need to fix their

economies and the meltdown at risk here. that's what every ukrainian would tell you, they're not after russia. they don't like -- they don't have good taste for war, no doubt about it. >> former georgian president, many thanks for joining us live in kiev. we will cross to moscow. and the reaction we heard, a press conference by sergei. what do you make of what we've seen in the last few hours. >> we were hearing from the foreign minister here and he was presenting the line russia blames kiev very much for the violations of the cease-fire so far particularly referring to that town of debaltseve where the fighting intensified since the peace agreement last week. and saying that's because ukrainian troops were surrounded

and fighting out of that. and he was saying and warned this would happen but he was ignored and saying look exactly as we predicted, this is what's happened on the ground. mr. lavrov's position is the situation can be resolved and then the rebels will start pulling back heavy weapons. the russian tv said the rebels at one point have already begun to withdraw heavy weapons the next stage of the peace agreement. the statement is clearly the rebels are supposedly prepared to implement the peace deal and kiev is preventing them. >> germany has condemned a military offensive linked with debaltseve. diplomatically, things are very precarious, aren't they? >> extremely so yes and we heard as well from joe biden the

vice president of america saying it was russian backed rebels and russian force violating the cease-fire and saying russia could expect extra moves -- an extra cost if that continued. we heard again from the foreign minister sergeiy lakrov said that was yet another threat from joe biden and they were being unconstructive in the process. a tough line from moscow very different than what we're hearing from kiev. >> thanks very much. do stay with us much more to come. caught in paris, trying to stop a black man from boarding a train.

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the ukrainian withdrawing its troops from the town of debaltseve. and investigations into claims of money laundering. more on that because we heard earlier today the investigations were searching the office of one of the world's biggest banks, hsbc in switzerland as part of a money laundering inquiry. the latest on that search. >> reporter: we haven't had any particular results for this search yet. what i would say is the fact that the geneva police have gone in there today is not really a surprise. when we look at the kind of allegations that came out about hsbc over the last week or so. it's been known for some years there was tax evasions at hsbc may have been involved in that. the perhaps more serious

allegations of laundering of money and laundering of profits and illegal trade in weapons and diamonds and drugs, now, this will cause great concern to geneva investigators. the fact is switzerland had a very strict law about money laundering since about the year 2000. the suggestion that kind of thing is going on in geneva a hub porefor private banking in 2007 will have rung alarm bells at the highest levels of the financial financials. greece looking for more money today. >> we're expecting greece to propose something, perhaps a new proposal on the table. we're still waiting for someone to blink, basically. it's officials meet today to decide whether to provide emergency funding for those greek banks the so-called liquidity

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>> chelsea football said it would help french police investigate reports a group of fans used raceist chants and pushed a black man off a train carriage in paris. >> reporter: a black commuter is seen attempting to board a businessbusy metro. words were exchanged and he's manhandled off the train. a few seconds later he tries again and is pushed off for a second time. then from the same carriage men are heard singing racist chants. a british man going home from work says he started filming at the station when he saw the situation getting heated. there's no confirmation the men are chelsea fans but the club has called the behavior abhorrent. it says it would support criminal action and if those involved do turn out to be season ticket holders or members, banning orders could

follow. "bbc news." hundreds of millions of chinese people are traveling home to spend the lunar new year with their family in what is thought to be the biggest migration. >> reporter: it's the great awake. the largest migration of humans on the planet. hundreds of chinese scrambling to get home for the new year. the nation's transport system close to breaking point. people prepareing to spend hours on packed trains. you get a real sense here of a country on the move. this scene is playing out at bus stations train stations and airports right across the country. it is the world's maddest dash. no one, it seems, wants to miss out on that all important family meal marking the start of chinese new year. >> translator: i'll have

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hello. "bbc world news." governments are reporting key troops are pulling out of debaltseve. a cease-fire is now almost entirely in place. >> the operation is going on under retreat of the debaltseve. there will be no ukrainian military left there. >> there have been reports of street to street fighting for this key transport hub. our correspondent, ian, is on

the front line. >> we are standing only about 5 kilometer is a way from debaltseve. we are hearing reports some ukrainian troops may be leaving the town but we're also hearing the regular sound of outgoing artillery that shows the fighting is still going on. prosecutors search hsbc's sub- subsidiary after launching an investigation in claims of money laundering. caught on camera in paris, the british football fans apparently stop a black man boarding a train. smuggled out of syria and offered for sale to the highest bidder an investigation into lucrative item controlled by the islamic state.

hello. ukrainian troops have begun withdrawing from debaltseve in the east of the country. the town has been the scene of some of the heaviest fighting in recent days. it is a strategy game important because of the railway hub of donetsk. it shows ukrainian troops pulling out of the beleaguered town the footage is showing several dozen ukrainian troops on the move with weapons from debaltseve. and a news conference was given saying ukrainian troops pulled out of debaltseve rather than negotiate with the rebels. >> we could have started talks about how to actually relieve the ukrainian troops that have

been encircled. but instead of talks, we have seen attempts to break through the surrounding circles and from outside the coldran and the militia rebels sharing concern what happens in debaltseve. but we're convinced in order for this situation to be calmed any use of force needs to stop in attempts to change the situation that existed on the zero hours of 15th of february. i call for common sense to prevail and the priority will be saving the lives of those people who are encircled. many of them are starting to give up. they're treated are humanely they're given food shower warm clothes. our colleagues work there and

show on air what is happening there. but we would not lie political ambition s ambitions to show darkness would prevail over the primary task of saving human lives. >> sergeiy lakrov there. the ukrainian spokesman has given a report of his situation and says government force were leaving with their weapons. >> translator: according to the information that we have received yesterday the ukrainian military are leaving with the weapons. and they'll can take with them is -- they cannot take with them is eliminated so that the enemy does not get. >> special correspondent ian, reports from the east ukraine front line. >> reporter: we're at a leb

bellichick point and not able to go further down this road because it's mined. the key point to tell you is there is a significant sound of heavy artillery firing out. you can't hear it but firing all around us. most sounds like it's going from the rebel side into the town of debaltseve. we talked to a rebel soldier who said the fighting was still going on and would carry on until they took the town. interestingly, he said he didn't think that would be the end of the battle at all. >> the reports we're getting here ukraine president petro poroshenko saying 80% of the rebel units have left. what do you think of that? >> reporter: we know they were in a beleaguered position and must have been low on ammunition and haven't been able to get supplies. medical staff on the ukrainian side we spoke to a couple days ago said they had difficulty

getting hold of them let alone getting in and retrieving the injury. the amount of artillery and shells coming down on that town one would have to assume the situation is incredibly dire for those troops. it would be a fairly ignominious defeat for the ukrainians to have to pull out like this. the key question is if these rebel force take debaltseve is that going to be enough. this isn't the only place where there have been breaches of the cease-fire. many commanders made it clear their ambitions are greater than just that town nevertheless they will regard this as a significant victory for their force. the question is will that be enough or will they go on. >> why is debaltseve such a significant town what will it mean for the strength of the russian supportive force? >> reporter: i think it's a very good question. essentially there are two regions, break away regions

controlled by different self-declared people's republic. you have the north and donetsk where we are now. what debaltseve gives you is a connected connection between the two, rail connection between the two although we imagine the infrastructure has been smashed in the same way the donetsk airport was. this is about land and resources and creating at least on paper, is a viable entity. people talk about autonomy. actually when you push commanders here want more than autonomy, outright independence and means you need some kind of viable service. interestingly to add here some of the troops here are very clearly from russia. they're from the far east of russia. commanders will say that doesn't prove they're being sent by the russian government all it proves is there have been

volunteers, as they call them to come and join the battle. clearly, there has been according to the americans and according to the ukrainians high levels of support. we saw that yesterday in the unbyun u.n. ambassador, samantha power. now, we go to speak to michael, who is trying to monitor the troops. what's your response to this morning in debaltseve? >> of course our chief monitor late last night did not mince words when asked about debaltseve. profoundly disturbed of reports what is going on there. crucially, our team led by the deputy chief monitor were unable to get access to debaltseve. we have not been there for a long time or since the cease-fire was agreed to.

in talks yesterday we were asking confirming an end to the cease-fire and with allowing to a special monitoring patrol to go there. at the end of the day, they were not able to do this. i understand talks were ongoing this morning. it does not look like we will get to debaltseve today. one of the main things we need is security to go there. one thing i must underline the ambassador said all sides have a duty to not only allow unfettered access but also the population and any attempts by the rebel group to change what was in that minsk package is unacceptable. debaltseve is part of the cease-fire. >> yet there seems to be this sort of breach. in what state realistically is that minsk agreement and how realistic are you now in the

coming hours and days about this cease-fire and any withdrawal further? >> we have since the beginning of the cease-fire 20 patrols throughout the region. we covered a lot of ground everyday. we remain hopeful. talks are ongoing in many different levels to, you know achieve peace. i have to underline that debaltseve is a very very difficult area right now obviously but there are other activities going on by the mission. for example, in our patrols we have come upon smaller towns where for example some of your correspondents have been where one town in particulars there morning hasn't had electricity for one month. what our colleagues are trying to do is help facilitate access for utility workers to get in there to restore electricity. there's really a lot of cases like that in donetsk and others there is calm and we're trying to leverage that calm to get

relief to this population. >> explain how you're working. you're working obviously with different commanders on the ground. how do you make contact? how difficult is it to police this whole thing? >> a good question. we have been on the ground almost a year now and have good contact with all sides including the rebel groups. including a 17 and daily checks with rebel groups to get to that area and it worked. i should point out it is a complex task in that and there are smaller irregular groups especially in southern laarea and we do need access but we have 250 monitor is in the conflict zone alone. we're waiting for more armored vehicles in participating states so we can increase those numbers and trying to utilize as quickly as possible more drones high

technology and satellite imagery to get a better picture what is going on on the ground. >> many thanks indeed from the osce. investigators in switzerland have searched the offices of one of the world's biggest banks as part of a money laundering. and that they helped the bank evade taxes. we have the latest on the search. >> reporter: we haven't had any particular results for this search yet. what i would say is the fact that the geneva police have gone in there today is not really a surprise. when we look at the kind of allegations that came out about hsbc over the last week or so. now, it's been known for some years there was tax evasions hsbc may have been involved in that. but the more perhaps more

serious allegations of laundering of money, laundering of profits, of illegal trade and weapons and diamonds and drugs, now, this will cause great concern to geneva investigators, because the fact is switzerland has a very strict law against money laundering since about the year 2000. so the suggestion that that kind of thing is going on in geneva a hub for private banking in 2007 will have rung alarm bells at the highest levels at swiss financial authority. >> what about other banks? will they now be investigated do you think? a lot of talk around about what has been going on in switzerland. >> reporter: well, i think there are not many banks in switzerland who are not looking over their shoulders for one reason or another, some more innocent than others. we know the biggest banks, the real pillars of the swiss financial sector i'm talking.

credit suisse and others. they are under investigation by the americans under long standing suspicions but those big banks and their american arms actually helped wealthy american clients to hide their money in swiss bank accounts and therefore avoid paying tax. now, we know the u.s. internal revenue service has an incredibly long-arm and we know that the united states is not going to want to let that money slip past it. interesting developments the way that's working out here in switzerland, americans living here in switzerland with an american passport find it very difficult to get a bank account here now, very difficult to buy a house because they can't have a mortgage because they don't have a swiss bank account. basically swiss banks don't want to touch american clients anymore until this business is sorted out. >> imogen foulks there.

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this is "bbc world news." the latest headlines for you. the ukrainian government withdrawing troops from the key town of debaltseve and a bank sub subsidiary and investigation into money laundering. french police will help investigate a report racist fans pushed a black man off a train carriage in a metro stop in paris. video coverage captured the scene shortly before the match sunday evening.

british police are looking at the footage with thoughts of football banning orders. >> reporter: a black man is attempting to board a busy metro train. words are exchanged and he's manhandled off the train. a few seconds later he tries again and pushed off a second time. then from the same carriage men are heard singing racist chants. a british man going home from work said he started filming at the station when he saw the situation getting heated. there's no confirmation the mistaken are chelsea fans but the club has called the behavior abhorrent. it says it would support criminal action. if those involved do turn out to be season ticket holders or members, banning orders could follow. wow. paul mortimer is a former professional footballer who plays in english clubs in

crystal palace. first, your response to those pictures. >> good afternoon. i'm absolutely stunned. i actually couldn't believe what i was seeing. for the victim it must have been the most right toening experience he has ever gone through with no explanation. absolutely stunning. i couldn't believe what i was watching. >> what do you think should now happen to those fans both in terms of the football club chelsea have obviously condemned what they've seen so far and the french authorities. what can they do? >> what they can do they've got pictures, they've got proof. they can go and find those fans and deal with them not just about banning orders. it's illegal behavior in public. they should be dealt with swiftly. and, for me what's happened has happened is literally what happens from now onwards is what's going to give people confidence, the fact it's dealt

with swiftly. again, the punishment must form some sort of deterrent. people need to recognize you can't get away with this kind of behavior. it wasn't at a football stadium, in a public area. that could have been any on the receiving end of that. it's just unbelievable. >> do you think this sort of behavior, these sort of issues are still typical amongst football fans in britain? >> i'd like to be able to say no, because, again, my response to this is i've not witnessed this for a long time. i'd like to be able to say no. what it does tell me, you know in football in this country, we still have work to do. there's a lot we can still do to raise awareness around combat and this type of behavior. >> do you think the clubs and football authorities really crack down hard enough? there's been a huge amount done a lot of words spoken do you think there's enough done? do they take it seriously or

not? >> i'd like to be able to say, yes, they do but, see, that would stop this behavior happening. the punishment should be really harsh. really harsh, to actually make a point and show these fans that, you know, the club is against ail all of this. sometimes words are just words, it's the actions. it's how people act from now on in, how they deal with it now on in. that's the challenge for all authorities who will deal with this what they do now. it must show us all this is serious, they do not -- there is a zero tolerance. i hate when that word is used because it doesn't seem to mean zero tolerance. if there is a zero tolerance, it should be unacceptable and the punishment should show that. >> is chelsea worse than other clubs? does it have a reputation like this amongst its fans or what? >> every club i know now is doing so much work in raising awareness and promoting aspects of equality and diversity.

it just shows even the very best of clubs still have work to do, can't rest on our laurels. it's a fight to continue and we have to strive to win. we can only do that with everyone working together and everyone making sure everyone understands this kind of behavior is unacceptable. >> thanks very much indeed paul mortimer. the football's decision has just issued a statement they will support chelsea's decision to ban any season holders and face criminal action to this abhorrent scene and condemn this disgraceful behavior. argentina's president, cristina fernandez dede kirchner is coming under investigation as they have to explain the unexplained death of a prosecutor a month ago. looking at cristina the woman behind the image.

>> reporter: cristina fernandez de kirchner is facing perhaps the biggest challenge of her eight years in office. occasionally flamboyant and political ly politically competent. she is loved and loathed in almost equal measure. supporters are fiercely loyal to the woman they see as continue ing the tradition of this country's own particular brand of political populous. that support is strongest on the other side of the tracks in shanty towns of buenos aires. president cristina's welfare programs and price controls are overwhelmingly popular here. >> reporter: cristina is one of us a flag bearer for the social movement and stands for justice says a young activist. >> a bar dedicated to cristina

and her late husband, nestor and founders of their movement. there's undoubtedly a cult focused on cristina. does she see herself as the mother of the nation? >> they are both leaders. >> reporter: at a museum in buenos aires the comparison hasn't gone unnoticed. >> every time you have cristina in an announcement or speech you see a picture behind of evita, to be connected with evita is to be connected to an important part of our society. >> reporter: the last years of cristina has been blamed on the economy and now un explained

death death. she is dressed in white sitting in a wheelchair and accusing her enemies of conspiracy. unable to stand for re-election, kris stay in cristina fernandez de kirchner must do something in her last year in office if she's to end argentina's turbulent history. gathering evidence how lucrative anticquities are being smuggled out. it's one of the terrorist groups main sources of funding. >> reporter: lebanon's porous border with syria is a haven for smugglers who traffic drugs and loot antiquities. this is where mohammed plies his trade. we meet at an apartment in bay

beirut. he doesn't want us to show his face. >> translator: there's three we deal with. these people used to move it all the way to the border. they pay a taxi driver to sneak it in. >> reporter: the police in lebanon have been cracking down on smugglers, seizing hundreds of artifacts. >> coming from all syria but more the islamic states. all the places of terrorism. >> reporter: this is where the seeds items are stored away in beirut's national museum. many are from the ancient city sies and there's big money to be made from them. >> we had objects that were proposed on the market on the local market for like $200,000. but we know that a dozen of them can go up to 1$1 million on the international market. >> reporter: lebanon is the

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